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dr. A. (Afra) Alishahi

Assistant Professor

Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital SciencesDepartment Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

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My primary research interest involves the development of computational models of human language acquisition. Computational modeling is an effective tool for studying human cognition: whereas linguistic and psychological theories often give a high level explanation for the experimental data, computational models provide a detailed account of the underlying mechanisms for the cognitive task at hand. Moreover, the behaviour of a model can be directly compared to that of humans through computational simulation.